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36 points by xodn348 3 hours ago | 30 comments

Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.

Type /destiny to see today's destiny!

It uses the actual classical East Asian astrology system. You enter your birthday once, then /destiny gives you today's reading anytime.

Two layers, kept honest:

1. The numbers (your eight-character birth chart, today's day pillar, the hexagram for the moment, five-element relationships) are computed by a Python script. Same person + same day = identical output. You can verify against any traditional calendar source.

2. The prose (today's stars, character sketch, life arc, advice) is written by Claude, applying centuries-old reading conventions to that fixed data. Not LLM-hallucinated horoscope.

If you have fun with it, a star would mean a lot.

sudosteph an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I am resisting the urge to be very snarky.

But how do you know that Claude's hallucinated horoscopes are any less accurate than traditional techniques? Have you A/B tested them?

mavelikara 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love to see the evals on this one!

hansmayer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Since you seem to be mentioning 'destiny', 'life arc' and 'advice' -it may be wise to put in some kind of a legal disclaimer for your own sake -- the use of LLM toys for advice about life and similar have led to some really bad outcomes, even suicides as we know now.

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

fair points. I will take a look at it

chakintosh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought anthropic is tightening usage but it seems people have nothing to do with their tokens …

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm doing what people wants. Thanks!

_pdp_ an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looks like a supply chain risk to me.

xodn348 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

I did not understood the meaning of your words.

awakeasleep 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Could you flesh out the installation instructions a little more? I haven't used the plugin marketplace yet, and don't have a /plugin command.

Claude itself is not able to tell me how to install it.

svachalek an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is for Claude Code. It's not hard to install/run Claude Code but it might be a little intimidating if you're not used to command lines.

I think in the regular Claude app, you can set up something like this as a "project" with a custom prompt. Claude might be able to pull the prompting from Github and convert it.

awakeasleep 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

There is a claude code in the claude gui as well, i think everyone must be saying to use the tui.

xodn348 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just edited readme as well

chaqchase an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Curious what prompt boundaries you're using. It's the kind of thing that's fun until it quietly invents details.

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

I actually did not use prompts here. It is actual calculation from the python lunar and it cast the result to LLM which you use. The LLM has the old books such as giving you your fortune following lunar year calculation. Have a fun with it!

Balvarez an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

for what it's worth I think this is fun. I'm not into this sort of thing but it's fun none the less.

xodn348 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

This was what I was targeting. Thanks

tomaytotomato an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would recommend you consider a Claude code hook, you could then specify a particular part of the agent lifecycle to invoke the fortune as an alternative to manual invocation of the skill.

You could do it on `SessionStart` to give a horoscope.

I am looking at making a skill to test random programming knowledge, so I don't forget that an Integer is 32bits (at least in Java)

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

Auto-run on session start (optional) added. Please check it out!

treexs 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

interesting, but I really wonder how big the audience is of people wanting to know their fortune while claude coding within the claude code interface

xodn348 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is my fun project! Not a profitable entity. Thanks

throwatdem12311 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes this is exactly what we need — the hallucinating dunning-Krueger inducing psychosis machine spewing made up pseudoscientific nonsense. Bravo.

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

haha great prose

throwatdem12311 an hour ago | parent [-]

People have been goaded into killing themselves or others by LLMs so I don’t take kindly to third rate hucksters abusing the behaviours that lead to it with these tools for a laugh.

Jtarii an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think it's that deep.

Seems like a bit of an overexageration to a bit of fun.

throwatdem12311 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

Have you ever had to deal with someone whose brain has been completely cooked by LLM induced psychosis? Because I have — it destroys people’s lives completely unnecessarily. So I will not apologize for having a visceral disgust towards people and behaviours that will amplify these very real harms for their own personal gratification and online clout chasing.

xodn348 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Hope you enjoy your life and time.

babblingfish an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

feature request: marriage palace built using two user profiles

xodn348 an hour ago | parent [-]

/destiny compat <partner birth> <city> <m|f>

do it now.

neonstatic 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Now the call center cranks will have even better scripts to read. Perfect...

xodn348 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

Let me have fun with it. Thanks